Hemmings Auto Blog

The problems of keeping a car in a large city are nothing new, as we see from this New York Public Library photo of West 125th Street in Harlem, taken in September of 1949 and labeled “parking congestion.” I don’t see anybody double or triple parked, so I bet modern Read more

Unfortunately, it’s not known whether this 1933 Fiat 508S Balilla Mille Miglia Spyder for sale on Hemmings.com actually competed in the event it’s named for, but the seller of this competition variant of the 508, still fitted with its original SIATA engine, seems to know just about everything else about Read more

How this 1974 Mercedes-Benz 408 fire truck for sale on Hemmings.com made its way from a tiny town in Germany to the United States we don’t know, but it’s remarkable that it did so and that it retains some of its markings and equipment and hasn’t been turned into some Read more

Boston’s North End is a charming little neighborhood that doesn’t look or feel too different from these two photos we found on the City of Boston Archives on Flickr. Above, a shot of Hanover Street looking north from Richmond Street, and below, Hanover looking north from Cross. Both photos are Read more

Mecum’s Kissimmee sale is rapidly becoming a highlight of the winter months for car aficionados on the East Coast. This year, the sale runs through January 27 and features a whopping 3,000 cars. The Hemmings East Coast street team is there, and has been taking pictures of some of the Read more

While browsing some images that reader Dave Patterson tipped us of to, we came across a collection of photos taken in and around Los Angeles over on the Neat Stuff Blog and selected a few from 1965 for your perusal here, starting with the above shot showing Hollywood and Ivar, Read more

They were the subject of one of our most popular posts of 2011, so we imagine many of our readers will enjoy seeing Jack Olsen’s Porsche and garage once again, this time featured in a Petrolicious video that gives us a little more insight into why Jack set both up Read more

Yes, we’ve seen the East Texas National Bank in Palestine, Texas, once before in our street scene series. Why it warranted another photo at about the same time, we don’t know, but the cars have changed in between the two pictures, so let’s have another look-see, shall we? As before, Read more

It might be hard to make out the cars in this nighttime shot of Main Street in Ritzville, Washington, that A.M. Kendrick took sometime in the 1950s, but you can’t deny how cool it is to see the neon lit up and the streetlamps reflecting off the rain-washed street. If Read more

A couple years ago, we found a shot of a jampacked parking lot in Washington, D.C., shot during a bus strike in May 1974 by Jim Pickerell for the Documerica project. Pickerell had shot plenty more photos of that strike, but we weren’t able to come up with any more Read more